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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1894-11-28, Page 6••• Oilk-lhe SONS Remelt ',Among the Mimi testimonials which t see is regard to certsia medicines perform - NI Mos, cleansing the blood, eta.," writes Belvr BUDBOX, of the James Smith Woolen Machinery Co., Fbiladelphia, Pa., -"none impress me more than wy owls ease. Twenty years ago, at the age of IB years, I had swellluge come on my legs, which balite and became mumble sores. Ourlamily ph ysiciancould dome uo good, and it was feared at the bones would hinageoted. At last, iny gOod old mother orrid me to try Ayer's Sarsaparilla. I took tbree bottles. the sores healed, and 1 have not been troubled since. Only the Scars remain, and the memory of the past, to remind me of the good Ayer's Sarsaparilla has done me. I now weigh two hundred and.twenty pounds,and am la the best of health. I have been on the Toad for the past twelve years, have noticed Ayers sarsaparilla advertised in all parts of the United States, and always take pleas - are la Wiling what good it did for me." For the cure of ail diseases originating In impure blood, the best remedy Is (/) AYER'S Sarsaparilla Prepared by Dr. 3.0. itycrsz Co., Lowell, Maas. Cures others, will oureyou The Huron News-Recora 1.50 a Year -41.25 in Advance. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28th, 1894. A SUFFOLK SlREET HALLOWEEN, Civflizin people in poor and bed quarters of great cities, through the medium of genii,: and Aga: table stn.. rounding's, is one of the sperialtios of Theosophy. Su'Itek street d 14 I it nt e N- eedy resent ciellizatimebut it took coils ly at first to the reading room boarding house for working girls 'flieu sophy set before it. Surat thiog's, b good, they might 5t81111, NVIth its r..11.11't decree; and then it went on calmly read- ing its Russian and Polish; and ltalein mid Hebrew, end all the othoo lan- gnages necessary to its inulticOored taste and requirements. It was (tit re ly owing to the witcheries of the Ho:- lowe'en 1111(1 t110 itte011SIStencie1( 1 fling little god called Cupid that Theo suphy got its first boom on Su o.! street. That morning the yoneg Inds of the new reading room had said to Anita. the fruit:sellernhat she would gi vo a lit- tle Halloweeu entortsitimmitia rim evening if she wee.; only verteim of a iew guests from the 1 eig.d,or.100,1. This Anita told to honest Wong Tsai the laundryinan,who in turn tell it to all Ins custemers, and toward night it bore fruit. . The boarding hous•i and r room, no more time the boxed off floor of a huge warehouse, were up a ini;sh flight of' steps like :i ladder The youeg lady itt charge of them both, the rend. ing room gi rl, got them i bountiful order, and when at 5 o'elock somehody knocked at the door, she said, "Come in," quite gleefully. A tall, slim girl in a platn brown dress and witl.' n shawl over her head, responded. She had a skin like the heart of a. jessamine flower and the sublime brow of the Sistine Madonna. But when she spoke, though low and gentle, her voice was a musical suggestion of only East New York. Her name WAS Emily Anderson. "Emily," she said, and she was a paper box maker, living just around the cor- ner with her widowed mother, and she AND THEN CAME EMILY'S TURN. had heard all about the Halloween enter- tainment, and she wanted to know if anybody could come who was respect- able and knew how to behave, "Yes; won't you come ?" said the reading room girl, "Well, 1 guess I will," said Emily, after a moment. "And maybe. I'll got some other girls to come and a young feller or two ; but you needn't be atria of any scrappin' going on. I can keep them as good as gold! You see I" The reading room girl said she knew she could. Then they both began talk - big as if they were. old friends, mid Emily told the secret that was weighing ou her mind. She had broken with her sweetheart, who though not exactly "tough,' had a quick temper, and was given to oc- casional "sprees." "To tell the truth," admitted the lovely madonna, frankly, "that's just why I want to come here to -it ight. 'There's going to be a dance round to the Sullivans—pretty bad egg. Joe Sullivan, just loves whisky—and if I go, Dave'll be sure to be tbere—his name is David Finn, and he's a plumber, end dead sure he'd pick a row with anybody just to make me speak to him. But 'I ain't ever ngoin' to do it. I'm just dead Wel: of rowdies, and 111 never marry none on earth. I've just broke with him for good, I have, and I'd go to the ends of creation to jump the sight of him!" Then Emily hoped that 'if any of the "boys" should come that night the voting litdN wmfidn't make them "mad' by talking religion. 'Then she went down the steps sniffing suspieionsly. It was quite plain to see that though the hot tempered and spree -loving Daye had leg.; the madonnas : respect, he had still a warm place in her wo- man's heart. At 8.R in the evening, true to her word. Emily went back to her boarding house, but with a big, brown, good looli- ieg yomns man alone. Who, but Mr. David Finn, the plumber himself. The rowdy, broken with, discarded sweet- heart! She presented him cooly, and without other comment than that "the rot of them" wonld go to the Sullivan dance, blitt fell into silence. The reading room gir) and a tall young lady in a fashionable pink dress, who had come in to help with the Hal- loween festivities, tried to draw her out In vain, She would say "Yes" and "No," mid then go back totter thinking, looking all the while like some beautiful holy picture. he disgraced Dave, on the contrary, proved a genial guest, and with a sur- prising.talent Or roasting chestnuts and apples just to the point. He was a win. rung rascal, too, on hie own ' account, with a curly, brown head and a big boy guffaw that would have touched a heart of stone. Yet at 10 o'clock Emily was still strangely silent. She (21(1noteven smile. not until the secon'tl masculine guest of the evening arranged a long row of twelve candles in little t4)tiA props on the floor, and lit them. This osettlentan had come all the way from II:rlem to keep the peace on Suf- folk street, if it should be necessary and he now informed the ladies that wnEN CHRIST WAS BORN DR, TALMAGe Gives A VIVID DE- SCRIPTION QF THE HOLY LAND, Magnificent Description and Comparieon Between Past anti Modern Ager. -The Difierenee Between Thent—What MIA Century Work Should Be. BROoKLYN, Nov. 18. —The sermon selected for to -day is on the gardens and public works of Israel's magnificent King, and the text, Ecclesiastes 2: 4-6: "I made me great works, I budded me houses, I planted me vineyards, I made me gardens and orchards, and planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits; I made me pools of water to water there- with the wood that bringeth forth trees." Dr. Talinage said : A spring morning and before break- fast at Jerusalem : A king with robes snowy white, in chariot decked with gold drawn by eight horses, high - mottled, and housings as brilliant as if scolloped out of that very sunrise, and like the wind for speed, followed by a regiment of Archers on horseback with hands on gilded bow, and arrows with steel points flashing in the sun, clad from head to foot in Tyrian purple, and black hair sprinkled with gold -dust, all dashing down the road, the horses at full run, the reins loose on their necks, and the crack of whips, and the halloo of the reckless cavalcade putting the miles at defiance. Who is it and what is it? King Solo- mon taking an outing before breakfast, from Jerusalem, to his gardens and parks and orchards and reservoirs, six miles down the road towards Hebron. What a contrast between that and my- self on that very road one morning, last December, going afoot, for our plain vehicle turned back for photographic apparatus forgotten. Wo on the way to find what is called Solomon's Pools, the ancient waterworks of Jerusalem and the gardens of a king nearly three thousand years ago. We cross the aque- duct again and again, and hero we are at the three great reservoirs, not ruins of reservoirs, but the reservoirs them- selves, that Solomon built three millen- niums ago for the purpose of catching the mountain streams, and passing them to Jerusalem to slake the thirst of the city, and also to irrigate the most glorious range of gardens that ever bloomed with all colors or breathed with all redolence, for Solomon was the greatest horticulturist, the greatest botanist, the greatest ornithologist, the greatest capitalist, and the greatest scientist of his century. Come over the piles of gray rock, and here wo aro at the first of the three reservoirs, which are on three great levels, the .base of the top reservoir higher than the top of the second, the base of the second reservoir higher than the top of the thirds so arranged that the waters gathered from several sour- ces above shall descend froin basin to basin, the sediment of the water de- posited in each of the three, so that by the time It gets down to the aqueduct which is to take it to Jerusalem, it has had three filtering -8, and is as pure as when the clouds rained it. Wonderful specimens of masonry are these three reservoirs. The white cement fasten- ing the blocks of stone together is now just as when the trowels three thousand years ago smoothed the layers. Tho highest reservoir S80 feet by 229; the second, 423 feet by 160; and the lowest reservoir 589 feet by 169; and deep enough and wide enough, and mighty - enough to float an ocean steamer. On that December morning, we saw the water, riding down frora reservoir to reservoir, and can well understand how in this neighborhood the imperial gardens were one great blossom, and the orchard one great basket of fruit, and that Solomon in his palace, writing the Song of Songs, and Ecclesiastes,, may have been drawing ,illustrations from what he had seen that very morn- ing in the royal gardens when he allud- ed to melons, and mandrakes, and apri- cots and grapes and pomegranates and figs and spikenard and cinnamon and calamus and camphire and "apple trees among the trees of the wood," and the almond trees as flourishing,and to myrrh and frankincense and represented Christ as "gone down into His gardens, and the beds of spices to feed in the gardens and to gather lilies," and to "eyes like fish pools," and to the voice of the tur- tle dove as heard in the land. I think it was when Solomon was s,howing the Queen of Sheba through these gardens that the Bible says of her : "There re- mained no more spirit in her." She gave it up. But all this splendor did not make Solomon happy. Ono day, after getting back from his morning ride, and before the horses had yet been cooled off, and rubbed down by the royal equerry, Solomon wrote the memorable words, following my text, like a dirge played after a grand mnrch, " Beluild all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there WAS no profit under the sun." In other words, -1 It don't pay !" Would God that we may all learn the lesson that this world cannot produce happiness ! At Marseilles there isa caatellated house on high ground crownea with all that grove and garden can do, and the whole place looks out upon as enchanting a landscape as the world holds, water and hills clasping hands in a perfect be- witchment of scenery, but the owner of that place is totally blind, and to him all goes for nothing, illustrating the truth. that, whether one be physically or morally blind, brilliancy of surround- ings cannotgive satisfaction. But tradition says that when the "wise men of the East were being guided by the star on the way to Bethlehem, they, for a little while, lost sight of the star, and in despair and exhaustion came to a well to drink, when look- ing down into the well they saw the star reflected in the water, and that cheered them, and they resumed their journey, and I have the notion that though grandeur and pomp of surround- ings may not afford peace, at the well of God's consolation close by, you may find happiness and the plainest cup at the well of salvation may hold the brightest star that ever shone from the he Aa vi tehnost.1 gh these Solomonic gardens are in ruins, there aro now growing there flowers that are to be found nowhere else in the Holy Land. How do 1 Ile - count for that ? Solomon sent out his ships and robbed the gardens of the whole earth for flowers and planted these exotics here, and these particular flowers are direct descendants of the foreign plants he imported. Mr. Mos- hullam, a Christinn Israelite, on the very site of these royal grirdens, has in our-ility, by putting in his osit spade, demoustrattd that the ground is only SEEP WENT DOWN THE STEPS, SNUFFING suseueocisev. they were to try their fates by jinn pi ng over tlet candles. These -represented in rotation all the months Or the year, and the to extinguished be the jumping would be the month of matrimony. It they put out none at all, that would he sign they wore to be old maids. 'rho rending room g1.1. jumped first. and was at 01100 laid on the shelf et single blessedness. The young ledv itt pink knocked over two candleseivhich proved she was to be ms 'Tied twico. And then eame Emilv's turn. Emily had borer holding hack, looking on with tho ghost. of a laugh about the corners of her divine menth ; and eow, without 0 bend she stood up and gather- ed together the slinele folds of her brown -dress. Poor Dave, love sick to the ears, flamed red as a peoey. "One. two, three," counted somebody, 11)1(1 with 11 running jump, the illitdonna whisked over the month of March. "Oh, Miss Anderson," said the girl in pink, as the smoking candle ley on the floor, "you will be mauled in five months. The reading, room girl kissed het without a word, and Dave agitSit chang- ed color, bnt this time from red to whin,. Then 80171610dy else declared that the cleret mulling in the kitchen would be ruined, and after they had all run out to see. Emily said quite. simply to Dave; "That's all right, Dave." • "You see," she explained it fterwnrd to the reading room girl, her fast friend by now, "it was like this. I knew there'd be ducking for apples lit Sulli- van's and going down the steps back- ward, end all the things to put men in t"Mper W11,11 they've took memo:much beer. and I just made rip my mind Dave shouldn't go. and maybe got 1110 shindy and be showing up at Eseex Market Sunday itt 011i with lanetin Chill11111011 and 15itgoes, Any woman can keep a man straight' it' she wants, and there ain't malty in the world as good es Dave. So, when I seen him in the street that. night I just calls out : 'Hello, Dave! You waster go to is Hal low mei entertainmetur 'Dona 1rltti wors, And then I wouldn't spent: another word hut just to 'come along ; and I don't think I'd have married Win on earth II T hadn't, come here mid knocked over the March candle." And so, though the whole of Suffolk street has not vet been tamed, two lov- ing and divided hearts ere enide and Ha Ilowiten and Theosophy are with- out doubt good things, ,,,,, 1),(,A moil 'tarty. This is the expression by which we commonly desigeinte people in general ot no very chive ted descriptioe. lu 011(1 0011-1:1101011 illustratod book, in -own, Jones and Robinson is more or less thus used. Similar expressions in other law guasse 4 ma 1', perhaps, be interesting, In French I seem to lin 'it seen Jean, Pierre et Paul, hut a French lady tees me she has never seen or Iterird it, though Pierre, Peril et Jacques is not 'uncommon, and Pierre et Paul alone is still more frequ hen rd. 111 (!erman, I 101 14' commonly met with Ilitz und or oder) 1(Usiz, hut Ileinz ail Kunz, Hans mill Kunz. Ham oder Ines (which Fluesil translates Smith or Jon(s), HMIS Oder 1 liti lt, Heinz oder Bowe (and perhaps und miry he substituted for oder in those Inst (WO), and lcuitz mid Peter i.re also used. Tititz und Benz is also met with, especially in Switzerlaud. The German also use I -Tack and Mack and I Inc k and Piwk of "a motley crowd, tag, rag and bobtail,' (Flugelf, but these do not seem to he Christian il£A111,'S. Alid. Curiously enough, they use two Biblical Hebrew words, "Kred(h)i und Medd.' also written "Kredi und Pli-di." In Italian, I find in "Mariette" (by I. L, Vigo, S. Pier d'Arona, 1884, n. 2751. a religious novol,VA limbic as explaining all the important doctrines of the Bo- man Catholic Church in a readable form "Vi sono tanti Antenii it Frenceschi Bartoinei," but a Tuscan lady tells me thet this is not known In her pert ol the country though they dn 1150 there Coco, Baco ed Atitonio.—Notes and Queries. Atter st Bird in the Hood, "Timmips' father snys he is going tc cut him off with a shilling." "What did Timmins say ?" "He asked if lin couldn't arrange to lcnve him out of the will entirely And give him the shUling now."—Washing ton Star. Me. waiting for the right call to yield just as much luxuriance and splendor eighteen hundred years after Christ as it yielded Solomon one thousand years before Christ. So all Palestine is waiting to become the richest scene of horticulture, arboriculture and agriculture. Recent travellers in the Holy Land speak of the.rocky and stoney surface of nearly all Palestine, as an impassable barrier to the future cultivation of the soil. But if they had examined minute- ly the rocks and atones of the Holy Land, they would find that they are skeleton- ized, and are being melted into the soil and being for the most part Bluestone, they are doing for that land what the American and. English farmer does when, at great expense and fatigue, he draws his wagon load of lime and scat- ters it on the fields for their enrichment. As I looked upon this great aqueduct of Palestine, a wondrous specimen of aneient masonry, about seven feet high two feet wide, eometimes tunneling the solid rock and then rolling its waters through stoneware pipes, an aqueduct doing it work ten miles before It gets to those three reservoirs,and then gath- ering their wealth of refreshment and pouring it on to the mighty city of Jerusalem and filling the brazen sea of her temple and the bathrooms of her palaces and the great pools of Siloam, and Hezekiah and Bethesda. I find that our century has no monopoly of the world's wonders, and that the conceited age in which we live had betterlake in some of the sails of its pride when it re- members that it is hard work in later ages to get masonry that will last fifty years, to say nothing of the three thousand, and no modern machin- ery could lift blocks of stone like Borne of those standing high up in the walls ot Baalbec, and that the art of printing claimed for recent ages, was practiced by the Chinese fourteen hun- dred years ago and that our midnight lightning express rail train was fore- seen by the prophet Nahum, when in the Bible he wrote, '"I'he chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall jostle one against another in the broadways, they shall seem like torches, they shall run like lightnings," and our electric tele- graph was foreseen by Job, when in the Bible he wrote, "Canst thou send light- nings that they may go and say unto thee, "Here we are?' What is that talking by the lightnings but the elec- tric telegraph! 1 do not know but that the electric forces now being year by year more thoroughly harnessed may liave been employed in ages extinct, and that the lightnings all up and down the sky have been running around like lost hounds to find their former master. Embalmment was a more thorough art three thousand years ago than to- day. Dentistry, that we suppose one of the important arts discovered in recent centuries, is proven to be four thousand years old by the filled teeth of the mummies in the museums at Cairo, Egypt, and artificial teeth on gold plates found by Belzoni in the tombs of depart- ed nations. We have been taught that Harvey discovered the circulation of the blood so late as the seventeenth century. Oh, no ! Solomon auuounces it itt t cclesiastes, where first having shown that he understood the spinal cord, Silver -colored as it is, and that it relaxes in old age, "the silver cord be loosed," goes on to compare the heart to a pitcher at a well, for the three canals of the heart to receive the blood like a pitcher, "or the pitcher be broken at the fountain," What is that but the circulation of the blood, found out twenty•six hundred years before Harvey was born? After many centuries of exploration and cal- culation, astronomy findsout that the world is round. Why, Isaiah knew it was round thousands of years before when in the Bible he said ; "The Lord sitteth upon the circle of the earth." Scientists toiled on for centuries and found out refraction or that the rays of light when touching the earth were not straight, but bent or curved. Why, Job knew that when ages before in the Bible he wrote of the light x "It is coming upon the chief cradle of all the world, not lined with satin, httt strewn with straw; not sheltered by a palace, but covered by a barn; not presided Over by a princess, but hovered over by a peasant giri; yet a cradle ,the canopy of which is angelic wings, and the tulle - by of which is the first eh:datums carol ever ming, and from which all the event of the past, and all events of the future have and must take date as being B. C. Or A. D.—before Christ or after Christ. All eternity past occupied in getting ready for this cradle, and all eternity to come to be employed in celebrating, its consequences. I said to the tourist companies plan- ning our Oriental journey, "Put us in Bethlehem in December, the place and the month of our Lord's birth," and we had our wish, 1 ain the only man who has ever attempted to tell how Bethle- hem looked at the season Jesus was born. Tourists and writers are there in February or March or April, when the valleys are an embroidered sheet of wild flowers, and anemones and ranunculus are flushed as though from attempting to climb the steeps, and lark and bull- finch aro flooding the Or with bird - orchestra. But I was there in Decem- ber, a winter month, the barren beach between the two oceans of redolence. I was told I must not go there at that season, told so befere I started, told so in Egypt; the bhoks told me so ; alt travelers that I consulted about it told me so. But I was determined to see Bethlehem the same month in which Jesus arrivedand nothing could dissuade me. Was 1 not right in want- ing to know how the Holy Land looked when Jesus came to it ? He did not land amid flowers and song. When the angels chanted on the famous birth' night, all the fields of Palestine were silent. The glowing skies were answered by gray rocks. As Bethlehem stood against a bleak wintry sky I climbed up to it, as through a bleak wintry sky Jesus descended upon it. His way down was from warmth to chill, from bloom ts barrenness, from everlasting June to a sterile December. If 1 were going to Palestine as a botanist, and to study the flora of the land, I would go in March, but I went as a minister of Christ to study Jesus, and so I went in December. I wanted to see how the world's front door looked when the heavenly Stranger entered it. The town ot Bethlehem to my surprise is in the shape ot a horseshoe,tlto houses extending clear onto the prongs of the horseshoe. The whole scene more rough and rude than can be imagined. Verily, Christ did not choose a soft, genial place in which to be born. The gate through which our Lord entered this world was a gate of rock, a hard cold gate,and the gate through which he departed was a swing -gate of sharpened spears. We enter a gloomy church built by Constantine over the place in which Jesus was born. Fifteen lamps, burn- ing day and night and from century to century, light our way to the spot which all authorities, Christian and Jew and Mohammendan. agree upon as being the place of our Saviour's birth, and, covered by a marble slab, marked by a silver star sent from Vienna, and the words 'el -fere Jesus Christ was born of tho Virgin Mary." Standing here at Bethlehem, do you not see that the most honored thing in all the earth is the cradle ? To what else did loosened star ever point? To what else did heaven lower balconies to light filled with chanting immortals ? The way the cradle rocks, the world • rocks. God bless the niothers all She world over! The cradles decides the destinies of nations. In ten thousand of thein are, this moment, the hands that will yet give benediction of mercy or hurl bolts of (loons, tho feet that will mount the steps towards God or des- cend the blasted way, the lips that will play or blaspheme. Oh, the cradle ! It is more tremendous than the grave. Where are most of the leaders of tha twentieth century soon to dawn upon u'? Are they on thrones? No. In chariots ? No. In senatorial halls? tth" No, In counting -houses ? No. They turned as clay o e seal. In the old cathedrals or England mod- are in the cradle. The most•tremendous . d. ern painters in the repair of windows thinsin the universe, annext to are trying to make something as good as the window painting of four hundred years ago, and always failing by the unanimous verdict of all who examine God is to be a mother. Lord Shaftes- bury said, "give me a generation of Christian mothers, and I will change the whole phaso of society in and compare. The color and modern twelve months." 0in . , thewhich you were cradle! For- get not the one painting fades in fifty years, while the rocked. Though old and worn out, that color of the old masters is as well pre- served after five hundred years as after cradle may be standing in attic or barn, one year. I saw last summer on the forget not the foot that swayed it, the walls of exhurned Pompeii paintings the lips that sang over it. the tears that dropped upon it, the faith in God that colors as fresh as though made the day before though they were buried eighteen made way for it. The boy Walter Scott hundred years ago. The making of didwell when he spent the first five- Tyrian purple is an impossibility now. guinea piece ho ever earned as a present In or modern potteries we are trying hard to make cups, pitchers and bowls as exquisite as those exhumed from Herculaneum, and our artificers aro at- tempting to make jowelery for ear and neck and finger equal to that brought up from the mausoleums of two thou- sand years before Christ. We have in our time glass in all shapes and all colors, but Pliny, more than eighteen hundred years ago, described a mal- leable glass which if throwii upon the ground and dented could be pounded Straight again by the hammer or could be twisted around the wrists, and that confounds all the glass manufactories of our 011'ri time. I tried in Damascus, Syria, to buy a Damascus blade, one of those swords that could be beet double or tied into a knot without breaking. I could not get one, Why ? The nine- teenth century cannot make a Damas- cus blade. If wo go on enlarging our cities We may after a while get a city as large as Babylon, which was five times the size of London. These aqueducts of Solomon that I visit to -day, finding them in good con- dition three thousand years after con• struction, make me think that the world may have forgotten more than it now knows. The great honor of our age is not machinery, for the ancients had some styles of it more wonderful ; nor art, for the ancients had art more ex- quisite and durable ; nor architecture, for Roman Coliseum and Grecian Acro. polis surpass all modern architecture ; nor cities, for some of the ancient cities were larger than ours in . the sweep of their pomp. But our attempts must be in moral achievement and Gospel vic- tory. In that we have already sur- passed them, and in that direction let the ages push on. Let us brag less of worldly achievement, and thank God for moral opportunity. More good men and good women is what the world wants. Towards moral elevation and spiritual attainment, let the, chief struggle be. Tho source of all that, I will show` you before sundown of this day, on which wo have visited the pools of Solomon, and the gardens of the king. We are on this December afternoon on the way to the cradle of Him who called Rims& greater than Solomon. We are to his mother. Standing in the chill khan of a Saviour's humiliation, and seeing what He did for us, I ask what have we done for Thin. "There is nothing I can do," says one. As Christmas was approach- ing the village church, a good woman said to a group of girls in lowly and straitened circumstances: "Let all now do something for Christ," Atter the day was over, she asked the group to tell her what they had done. One said : "I could not do much, for we are very poor, but I had a beautiful flower I had carefully trained in our home, and I thought much of it. and I put that flower on the church altar.'' And another saia "1 could not do much for we are very poor, but I can 'sing a little, and so I went down to a poor sick wo- man in the lane, and sang as well as I could, to cheer her up, a Christmas song," "Well, Helen, what did you do?' She replied: "I could riot do much, but I wanted to do something for Christ, and I could think of nothing else to do, and so I went into the church after the people who had been adorning the altar had left, and I scrubbed down the back altar stairs." Beautiful 1 I warrant that the Christ of that Christian day gavo her as much credit for that earnest act as He may have given to the robed official who,on that day, read for the people the prayers of a resound- ing service. Something for Christ 1 Something for Christ ! Oates Wets. sad 001120.0900nBottotl. 400oe, whelarrallGalsotTerTliellazt. _ocusbils.E°Cinroltutay crag Tthstrhornata.HrooarracerioneeistimWptihoonopiltachasOnnulettIvol has cured thusands. and will Orme Ir takertia thee. Sold by DroggiSta on a gear. antee. For a Lanae Baez or amt. use SHILOH'S BELLADONNA PLASTSRAC. 5}11LON'11 .iS.,A.NCATAR11 REMEDY; an:-Yelolic;.rarr.tir ;els? remedy In ireasaue teed to cure you. Fries), Wets. Inpotortreas Sold by 3. H. COMBE. Stanley Council met at Varna, Nov. 19th, 1894, at 1 o'clock. Members all present. Reeve in chair. Minutes of previous meeting were read and signed. The statement of poundkeeper Wm. Collins. was accepted and the fees, $4.50, ordered paid to Treasurer. By-law No. 11 appointing Deputy Returning Officers, Thomas .Fraser, Thomas Kinnard, 3, T. Cairns, Win. Bothwell and Samuel Sterling was read and passed. The following accounts were ordered to be paid :—Dr. Armstrong, for attendance on Mrs. Scotsmer, $12.50; Johnston Bros., for sewer pipe, $18.70; and H. and J. C. Kalhfleish for timber, $19.05. The Clerk was instruct- ed to have 25 copies of nomination and election notices printed and distributed. The following gravel accounts were ordered to be paki :—John Gibson $28.48, D. Gingrich • $38.40, Wm. Reed $42.90, JosephFisher$11.60, Mrs. Mc- Dougall, $18.88, Andrew Reid $53.20, Robert Snowden $17.28, Richard Pen - hale $2.80, and H. Diehl 80 ets. The Reeve and Assessor were each paid $3 for selecting jurors and the clerk $3 for postage and stationery used for Court of Revision. All pax -ties having accounts against the Council are re- quired to present them at next meet- ing. Council then adjourned to meet again on Saturday, December 15th, at 10 o'clock a. m.—J. T. CAIRN'S, Cleik 110 Room w 'tit ts I ss. Col. James Russel Lowell told the story that one of the gentlemen he met In Chicago had a good deal to say of his travels in Europe. Col. Lowell re- marked that he greatly enjoyed the French literature and that Geerge Sand was one of his favorite author's. "Oh, yes," exclaimed the Chicago gentleman, "1 have had many a happy hour with Sand." "You know George Sand,thon?" ask- ed Col. Lowell, with an expression of surprise. "Knew him? Well, I should rather say I did," cried the Chicago man, and then he added as a clincher: "I roomed with him in Parts."—Chicago Record, AVOID TROUBIE AT BOK Use Only the Reliable Dia- mon.d Dyes. It is well known that the ladies of Canada often experience triallk and tribulations in the household maelage- merit. These small but hritating troubles can be avoided if a little care and common sense is exercised.' Women who go on suffering. these little miseries have themselves to blame as they suffer through their own care- lessness and inexperience. To -day one great source of annoyance in the household is the use of poor imitation dyes for domestic dyeing. In some sections of our land, the ladies have lifted up their voice against them in a way which cannot be misunderstood: These imitation dyes have caused not only great loss of material and money - but anger and headache as well. All these domestic trials and tribula- tions are avoided when Diamond Dyes are used. By their use work la_ well and quickly done ; results are always grand, and the colors aro brilliant and lasting. Ladies who have used Diamond Dyes for the last ten years know their great worth and pos- sibilities. Avoid all imitation dyes, and always insist upon getting Dia- mond Dyes from your druggist or deal- er, 'Keep 'mem." - Don't be a woman with a daily tale of woe. Luckily for the women the majority of them do not come under that head, but there is already a sufficient number of women who never have anythiug pleasant to say for themselves. They sing their griefs, their trials and tribu, lations in 'every key. Every one of their woes is worse than those one of one else. It is all very well once in a while, and men really like to pity a woman, and dote on her feminine frailty aid troubles, but to be perpetually called on to offer up daily condolences is more than the good nature of the average matt and his good opinion of the sex in general will stand. Moreover, if you are so unfortunate as to possess a reliable grievance with references that can't be disputed, donl tell it to every man you meet. If you are working in an office, don't think every man in it must hear it stated in detail. Don't roll you eyes upward and look as if the sun and moon and thejoy- ous little stars had been wiped out of existence. If all your trouble make you feel un- utterably ill-tempered, get away some- where by yourself and let the temper loose on your own devoted head. Then go back to the world and smilejust as if you really enjoyed living, or could stand it with pleasure. Remember that neither men nor other women really like the tale of woo woman.—Chicago Times, Clothes for the Emperor Though the Gorman empero ploys Berlin tailors he believes in gi 1g pro. vincial employment also. In every good-sized town there is a court tailor, who occasionlly has the honor of supply- ing the emperor with a uniform and as his uniforms aro as diverse and numer- oils as the stars of the heavens there is good business done, especially as his majesty Mere very materially from his grandfather, who had his uniforms and caps repaired and cleaned so often that the tradespeople had to declare at last the garments would bear no more reins vation. The imperial Immure is al- ways kept in stock by the tailors, se that only the minute details are sent wit -n an order is Overt, A tiltlie the kaiser costs on an average ladvmon $ 10 and $60.